IN> Vessel-switching Disturbance

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 3:42 PM -0400 3/23/09, William Keith wrote:
>>[...] If you know all three, you have a +2! (For modifiers to <I>skill</I>, 
>>see p. 47.)
>
>Hmm.  That rule doesn't seem to have been translated in any form as part 
>of the Virtuoso or performance rules in GIN.  Would you say a +1/+2 to 
>effective skill for knowing 2 or 3 versions in GIN would be an acceptable 
>translation of canon?

It could work, and we considered it -- but in the end? GIN characters have
skill-levels that are _so_ much higher, proportionally, than IN characters,
in Songs. They already take advantage of degree-of-success enough that it's
not really necessary to boot them any more. And as flavor went, it was
often-enough forgotten in regular IN games anyway...

Besides, it's not actually a bonus to skill. It's a bonus to _success._
To be more in line with adding it, you'd want to say that someone who
knows two/three versions of a Song gets an effective +1/+2 to the 
degree-of-success calculations (but not the degree-of-failure ones).

Hm. It could be a cute little house-rule in GIN to let it _subtract_ from
degree of failure (minimum degree of failure 0), as well. You still fail,
but not as badly. Not sure how to handwave the justification for that,
entirely, though.
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